Heil's minimum-volume conjecture for bodies of given thickness

Let dd be a prescribed thickness, and consider convex bodies in three-dimensional space with thickness dd. The Heil body is the convex hull of six circular arcs of radius dd, centered at the midpoints of the edges of a regular tetrahedron of edge length d2d\sqrt{2}, together with the four vertices of a rescaled tetrahedron of edge length d(262)/3d(2\sqrt{6}-\sqrt{2})/3. Heil's conjecture. The Heil body is the minimum-volume three-dimensional body in the class of convex bodies with given thickness. The conjecture concerns the unresolved minimum-volume problem for convex bodies of prescribed thickness; the source gives no resolution.

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Ákos G. Horváth, “On convex bodies that are characterizable by volume function”, arXiv:1908.03196 (2019).

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